Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of verb reverberate
6 senses of reverberate
Sense 1
resound, echo, ring, reverberate -- (ring or echo with sound; "the hall resounded with laughter")
=> sound, go -- (make a certain noise or sound; "She went `Mmmmm'"; "The gun went `bang'")
Sense 2
reverberate -- (have a long or continuing effect; "The discussions with my teacher reverberated throughout my adult life")
=> prevail, persist, die hard, run, endure -- (continue to exist; "These stories die hard"; "The legend of Elvis endures")
Sense 3
reverberate -- (be reflected as heat, sound, or light or shock waves; "the waves reverberate as far away as the end of the building")
=> reflect, reverberate -- (to throw or bend back (from a surface); "Sound is reflected well in this auditorium")
Sense 4
reflect, reverberate -- (to throw or bend back (from a surface); "Sound is reflected well in this auditorium")
Sense 5
bounce, resile, take a hop, spring, bound, rebound, recoil, reverberate, ricochet -- (spring back; spring away from an impact; "The rubber ball bounced"; "These particles do not resile but they unite after they collide")
=> jump, leap, bound, spring -- (move forward by leaps and bounds; "The horse bounded across the meadow"; "The child leapt across the puddle"; "Can you jump over the fence?")
Sense 6
reverberate -- (treat, process, heat, melt, or refine in a reverberatory furnace; "reverberate ore")
=> process, treat -- (subject to a process or treatment, with the aim of readying for some purpose, improving, or remedying a condition; "process cheese"; "process hair"; "treat the water so it can be drunk"; "treat the lawn with chemicals" ; "treat an oil spill")
Antonyms of adj reverberating
1 sense of reverberating
Sense 1
resonant, resonating, resounding, reverberating, reverberative -- (characterized by resonance; "a resonant voice"; "hear the rolling thunder")
INDIRECT (VIA reverberant) -> unreverberant, nonresonant -- (not reverberant; lacking a tendency to reverberate)
Similarity of adj reverberating
1 sense of reverberating
Sense 1
resonant, resonating, resounding, reverberating, reverberative -- (characterized by resonance; "a resonant voice"; "hear the rolling thunder")
=> reverberant (vs. unreverberant) -- (having a tendency to reverberate or be repeatedly reflected; "a reverberant room"; "the reverberant booms of cannon")